Gathered

The heads of six natural gas exploration and production companies, all members of America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA), gathered Thursday to discuss efforts to “increase appreciation” of North American natural gas and educate legislators and the public on the role of natural gas. They also voiced their opposition to the Waxman-Markey climate bill approved by the House earlier this year.

A crowd of about 2,000, mostly landowners, gathered in Bainbridge, NY, recently to urge state and federal policymakers to allow the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracing) techniques to develop natural gas in the state’s Marcellus and Ithaca shale formations.

A crowd of about 2,000, mostly landowners, gathered in Bainbridge, NY, Sunday to urge state and federal policymakers to allow the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracing) techniques to develop natural gas in the state’s Marcellus and Ithaca shale formations.

With a new resurgence of market, technology and public policy activity permeating the industry, stakeholders in the growing wind power sector gathered early in June in Los Angeles at the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) annual meeting, and everything about the sessions was larger than in previous years — from the participants and exhibitors numbering more than 7,000, 400 suppliers, including names from the broader energy industry, and a fresh ambitious vision for wind’s heightened role in a global climate change-driven alternative energy world.

Reading between the lines from the experts gathered at GasMart 2007 in Chicago last week, domestic and Canadian natural gas production are at their limits and demand is increasing. Pipelines from the far north are years, possibly multiple decades or lifetimes away. Conventional wisdom is that liquefied natural gas (LNG) from overseas will fill in the gap; but will it? And what happens if it doesn’t?

Reading between the lines from the experts gathered at GasMart 2007 in Chicago last week, domestic and Canadian natural gas production are at their limits and demand is increasing. Pipelines from the far north are years, possibly multiple decades or lifetimes away. Conventional wisdom is that liquefied natural gas (LNG) from overseas will fill in the gap; but will it? And what happens if it doesn’t?

While various opposition environmental groups gathered for meetings earlier this week nearby, the Port of Long Beach separately moved forward with expanded environmental and safety assessments on a proposal for a 1 Bcf/d liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in the harbor, one of the world’s busiest, situated about 25 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

While various opposition environmental groups gathered for meetings earlier this week nearby, the Port of Long Beach separately moved forward with expanded environmental and safety assessments on a proposal for a 1 Bcf/d liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in the harbor, one of the world’s busiest, situated about 25 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

While various opposition environmental groups gathered for meetings earlier this week nearby, the Port of Long Beach separately moved forward with expanded environmental and safety assessments on a proposal for a 1 Bcf/d liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in the harbor, one of the world’s busiest, situated about 25 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.